While Shadows of the Empire sucked (like the prequels, it overexplained things that never needed explaining, such as why Chewbacca's hair looks slightly different in ROTJ), and Dash Rendar was a terrible Han Solo surrogate, I'm giving you an upvote simply for the fact that you recognized the name.

I'm very serious when I say, "thank you" for replying. As long as Apple keeps making great products, I'll keep buying them. I actually made my purchase via my school's website (which redirected to Apple.com's educ store).

This is what it says when you configure the macbook regarding Apple Care:

For up to three years from your computer's original purchase date, the AppleCare Protection Plan gives you direct, one-stop access to Apple's award-winning telephone technical support for questions about Apple hardware, Mac OS X, iLife, and iWork. And you get global repair coverage for your Mac — both parts and labor — through convenient service options.

When you purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan and your computer at the same time, you'll be automatically registered in the plan.

I think the language, "...and you get global repair coverage for your Mac — both parts and labor — through convenient service options" leads one to believe that when you purchase the $250 plan, you are covered for the 3 years.

I challenge you to find a manufacturer's warranty (basically what Apple Care is) that covers water damage. I don't like it, but that's often the case.

Interestingly, a buddy of mine's MacBook Pro keyboard stopped working due to water damage. Apple refused to fix it for free because water damage isn't covered by the warranty. He bought an external keyboard instead.

About a year later (out of warranty now), his screen stopped working, too, unrelated to the water damage. Apple agreed to fix it for free, and when he got it back, they had fixed the water damage as well - also for free!

So while I am not a fan of the we-don't-fix-water-damage thing, beyond that, Apple's customer service is amazing. Any other computer company I've had to deal with has been ... let's just say the opposite of amazing.

The Black Keys are still pretty obscure to many (I only heard of/started listening to them about two months ago), and I've never heard of Phoenix.

You have a point with Pink Floyd, though I'll wager most younger Floyd fans have listened to "Dark Side," "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall," and have never heard "Echoes" (their best song IMO), much less the live Pompeii version.

But then they throw in that bizarre "chicken" element in the sequels that is utterly ridiculous, the second movie almost entirely retraces the steps of the first one, and the third one is just plain ridiculous (but at least it's more fun than 2).

It's like the Indiana Jones movies - the first one is near-perfect, but the sequels are only about 50% what they could have been.

Ugh, I hate white text on black backgrounds. As soon as I look away from the screen, I have a bunch of horizontal lines burned into my retinas. I always have to control+option+apple+8 to invert the screen colors so I can read it without going crazy.

And there are two reasons why modern 3D is different from anaglyph 3D:

The glasses are polarized instead of different colors, so you don't destroy the color palate of the film while watching it in 3D.

Both eye images are shot digitally instead of on separate pieces of film, which makes it much easier to align without, say, the left eye image shaking more than the right eye image, thus destroying the illusion.

Beyond that, not much about 3D films has changed since Dial M For Murder.

I think I must be the only person on reddit who was okay with the way that Battlestar ended. The appeal of the show to me was in the emotional relationships between the characters, and I thought those were all tied up pretty nicely. The plot wrapup wasn't mind-blowing but I was willing to go along with it.